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Interview Toolkit

Department of Management Studies


INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI
(Institute of Eminence, Govt. of India)
INTERVIEW TOOLKIT COMPENDIUM

Contents
Commonly Asked Questions:.................................................................................................... 4
Hobbies: ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Fresher Specific Questions: .................................................................................................... 10
Work Experience Specific Questions:.................................................................................... 10
General questions related to Academics ................................................................................ 12
Common HR Questions ........................................................................................................... 12
Interview Experience 1: ............................................................................................................. 13
Interview Experience 2: ............................................................................................................. 13
Interview Experience 3: ............................................................................................................. 14
Interview Experience 4: ............................................................................................................. 15
Interview Experience 5: ............................................................................................................. 15
Interview Experience 6: ............................................................................................................. 16
Interview Experience 7: ............................................................................................................. 17
In terview Experience 8: ............................................................................................................ 17
Interview Experience 9: ............................................................................................................. 18
Interview Experience 10: ........................................................................................................... 19
Interview Experience 11: ........................................................................................................... 19
Interview Experience 12: ........................................................................................................... 20
Interview Experience 13: ........................................................................................................... 20
Interview Experience 14: ........................................................................................................... 21
Interview Experience 15: ........................................................................................................... 22
Interview Experience 16: ........................................................................................................... 22
Interview Experience 17: ........................................................................................................... 23
Interview Experience 18: ........................................................................................................... 23
Interview Experience 19: ........................................................................................................... 24
Interview Experience 20: ........................................................................................................... 24
Interview Experience 21: ........................................................................................................... 25

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Interview Experience 22: ........................................................................................................... 26


Interview Experience 23: ........................................................................................................... 26

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Commonly Asked Questions:

1. Introduce yourself:
Approach –
This question is a great way for you to lead the interview in the direction that you want
to, by showcasing your qualities as part of various activities you have undertaken in
your college or part of your organization, your background, education, hobbies.
Tips:
• Start chronologically.
• A normal sequence is:
Name – where are you from – undergraduate education – any achievements
during UG – work experience if any – a brief introduction about your role in the
organization – learnings – hobbies – any achievements related to those hobbies.
• Try to ensure that the points you want to discuss further are delivered at the end
of your introduction and emphasized subtly.

2. As you aspire to pursue an MBA, define what is Management and


Administration.
Approach -
• It is always better to add your understanding of those words and not give a
definition directly from the internet.
• Try to elaborate by using incidences from your personal experiences.

3. Tell me something about yourself which is not in your resume.


Approach -
• The answer could be related to something that you have recently accomplished
or any position of responsibility that you have recently handled.
• The answer should define how you achieved this position of responsibility or
accomplishment, as well as what were the key learnings you had from this.
• It could also be about your hobbies, passions and something unique which you
enjoy pursuing.

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4. What is that one unique feature about you that differentiate you from all the
others?
Approach –
This is a chance for you to highlight your strengths and USP, what is it that makes you
stand out from the other candidates. While answering this question, make sure to
support your statements by giving examples of situations where you have displayed said
qualities

5. How can you contribute to this MBA batch and to our institute as well?
Approach –
• In an MBA class, there would be students from diverse backgrounds. It is an
opportunity for the students to interact and for mutual learning and knowledge
transfer. Hence, your answer should highlight how your expertise or knowledge
would be beneficial for your batch.
• It is better to know about the various activities that take place in a college and the
achievements of past students by going through the website. In this way, you can
frame good points about how you can contribute to your institute with your
performance.

6. Tell me your 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses?


Approach –
• First thing to keep in mind is that you should start with strengths unless
mentioned otherwise. Starting with weaknesses would give bad impression.
• Be prepared with at least 4 strengths and weaknesses for each so that the
question does not catch you off-guard in middle of the interview.
• Try to put your strengths in a way of show casing your skills that help to consider
you as a best fit for MBA and while saying your weaknesses align them with the
points of how you are working to tackle your weaknesses. Be cautious that
your weaknesses points should not build negative impression in the panelists.

7. What is the biggest challenge that you faced in your entire life?
Approach –
• Try to answer this question as truthfully as possible. It is also required to mention
how did you cope up in such kind of challenging times and try to highlight your
situation handling capabilities and pressure handling capabilities.

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• These kind of questions gives you an opportunity to put your interpersonal skills
before the panelists.
• Some panelists might ask this kind of questions suddenly. Thus, it is important to
think on this question lines and analyze any other questions and be prepared.
• Use STAR approach to answer.
The STAR format stands for Situation, Task, Action, Result:
• Situation: An event, project, or challenge faced
• Task: Your responsibilities and assignments for the situation
• Action: Steps or procedure taken to relieve or rectify situation
• Result: Results of actions taken.

8. Have you faced criticism anytime in your life? How did you respond?
Approach –
• This kind of questions will be asked to test your mental stability. How you
control your emotions in such situations and respond accordingly.
• Try to maintain a calm demeanor and positive mindset while answering this kind
of questions. Use STAR approach.
Example: I analyzed their comments and considered it objectively if there are any
lacuna from my side and rectified myself afterwards.
Questions on similar lines: What is the biggest failure in life? How did u cope up with
it?

9. What are your biggest achievements and failures (What went wrong and what
would you have done differently)?
Approach –
• While answering to your biggest failure, make sure you don’t portray yourself as
weak and incapable. Also, try to bring what you learned from your failure and
how did you overcome it.
• An interviewer knows that no one is perfect and the biggest failure can lead to the
biggest success. This also tells them how you view risk, failure, and success in
general.
• While answering: 1) Smartly choose your failure 2) Share the story 3) Tell what
you learnt from it
Through such question, interviewer wants to know how you can be an asset and bring
contribution to the institution. While speaking about your achievements, try to mention

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how you achieved it, what were your learnings throughout the journey.

10.What are your short-term, mid-term and long-term goals?


Approach –
• Through this question, the interviewer wants to know how much you are
ambitious, to better understand your career direction and where you see yourself
shortly
• Your goal should seem realistic, it needs to be attainable and have some
correlation with your skillset and abilities.

11.How do you handle disagreements when working as part of a team? Provide an


example.
Approach –
When working on a team, conflict may arise between different people at any time. Your
response to this question can demonstrate your ability to collaborate effectively with a
variety of working styles. Explain how you work to resolve them to accomplish the
team goals.

12.You have done your B.Tech in Mechanical/CS/EE/Chemical/ECE


specialization? So why do you want to do MBA now? How does your UG helps
you after doing MBA?
Approach –
During graduation in any specialization the student would gain technical and industrial
knowledge. An MBA teaches managerial skills in addition to the particular domain
knowledge. So, if a manager has technical knowledge, and working for any industry or
a technology company or where ever it can be, he/she can better understand the
situation and can take better decisions when any critical situation arises.
So, this is how you have to put your positive attitude for any this kind of questions.
A negative perspective would give bad impressions to the panelists who are observing
your responses.

13.Which specialization of MBA are you interested in?


Approach –
There are 2 ways to answer this question:

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• Say that the main reason for choosing general MBA is to gain holistic knowledge
about all domains and say that you believe this would better helps to analyze a
situation more efficiently and make decisions in any critical situations.
• Be very cautious with this answer: You can say any specialization that you are
interested in, but be ready to face typical connecting questions.
Example: Finance
Be ready to face basic questions related to Finance subjects or any current affairs related
to this branch such as budget or any monetary policies.

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Hobbies:

Hobbies is a section where we get a chance to showcase our talent apart from our
academics and link it with our strengths and how it has shaped our personalities as well
as our idols and their qualities which we admire.
- Who is the best player in the sport (as chosen by the candidate) and give
reasons for your answer?
- You could have pursued a career in the sport or activity yet why you
moved towards academics?
The common and popular hobbies and questions surrounding those are:
Sports:
- What are the popular players? Why?
- Do you currently play?
- Any recent news?
- Dimensions of the ground/court as well as the popular rules?
Music:
- Do you play any musical instrument? How do they work?
- Why this particular instrument? Any maestro in this area that you follow?
- Do you have any achievements in this field?
- What have you learned from them?
Reading:
- Genre of reading
- Last book that you read
- What were the learnings or anything particular you enjoyed about this
book?
- Favorite author, books, why this particular author?
Art:
- What kind of art do you do?
- What all stuff is required for this?
- Do you post this anywhere?

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Fresher Specific Questions:

1. As a fresher don’t you think if you had work experience, it would be beneficial
for you and make your MBA more fruitful?
Approach -
It is important to know that being a fresher there would be some disadvantage when it
comes to MBA is 100 % wrong.
There would be advantages and disadvantages in every step that everyone makes. Here
it is important to know how you are going to use your advantages to nullify your
disadvantages and use that for your positive gains.
So, your answer should highlight the positives that you are going to gain with MBA

Work Experience Specific Questions:

1. Explain a situation in which you disagreed with your manager and how you
handled it.
Approach –
• This question could determine how you respond to disagreements when it is with
an authority figure and how it could impact your ability to perform assigned
tasks. Your response can show your ability to follow instructions and how you
approach a disagreement with your manager or supervisor.
• When answering this question, provide an honest example of when you disagreed
with a supervisor and how you were able to resolve that conflict.
• If you do not have any disagreements, you can tell how you responded to
criticism from the manager.
Frequently Asked Questions to candidates with Work Experience:
• What was your role/responsibility in your job?
• How did you contribute?
• What are your learnings? How can you leverage it in your MBA?
• How can MBA help you after what you have learnt from your job?
• Questions specific to the technology/domain you worked in?
• Questions on technology/domain competing to technology/domain in which you
worked
• Few questions about your client
• Questions on firms which are competitors of the firm in which you have worked

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• Biggest challenge that you faced during your Work experience at your
organization
• What motivated you to be associated with your previous organization? Why did
you leave the company? Describe one change you’d like to bring in this
organization, given the chance and power.
• If I call up your current or previous reporting manager now, what will be their
opinion about you? What will they say that you need to work on?

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Some common general questions that every aspirant should be prepared


for:

• What is the meaning of your name?


• Names of MLAs and MPs of your constituency?
• Names of Central ministers and your state ministers and chief ministers?
• Current trending topics of your State?
• Rivers that are flowing in India?
• Some simple Guesstimates?
• Questions on Statistics basics?
• Current trending issues in India and main issues globally?
• What are seven sister states in INDIA?

General questions related to Academics

• Revise the basics of few of your favorite subjects in college


• If there is no consistency in maintaining percentages or have bad grades in any
semester, prepare a valid reason for that
• Regardless of freshers or experienced candidates, everyone should be well
prepared with the questions related to your specialization in your UG or PG

Common HR Questions

• Describe two situations when you have demonstrated leadership and inspired
people towards achieving certain goals. What kind of leader do you think you
are?
• Tell us about a time when you were swamped with tasks. How did you prioritize?
• When was the last time you got into a major argument with your
friends/colleagues? What was the issue, and how did your point of views differ?
How did you resolve the issue?
• What is the most difficult thing that you’ve ever accomplished?
• What are your hobbies or what are you passionate about?
• Can you describe your time management skills with an example?

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Interview Experiences

Interview Experience 1:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, NIT Trichy


Branch: Computer Science and Engineering
CAT Percentile: 99.15
Work Ex (Company, Months): Flipkart, T.I.M.E (55 Months)

Interview Questions:

1. Why are you interested in pursuing an MBA despite having a good amount of
work experience?
2. What are your short-term & long-term goals?
3. Can you describe how your academic history and work experience play into your
current choice of pursuing an MBA?
4. Which newspaper do you read?
5. Tell us some recent Business Happening or something you read in the last 3-5
days in the newspaper
6. What is Fiscal deficit?
7. Tell us your 3 strengths & Weaknesses.
8. What are you doing to overcome your weaknesses?
9. Why should we select you over other candidates that have received the call for
DMS PI interviews?
10.Guesstimate - How many red cars are there in your city?
11.Home state related static or current affairs questions

Interview Experience 2:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, Manipal Institute of Technology


Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering
CAT Percentile: 96.75
Work Ex (Company, Months): Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solution

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Private Limited (36 Months)

Interview Questions:

1. Why do you want to pursue an MBA degree?


2. What do you understand by economies of scale?
3. What do you think about the privatization of banks?
4. What is your take on Section 370?
5. What do you understand by direct and indirect taxed? Please explain with
examples.
6. What should be the power of the antenna covering the entire earth?
7. What are autonomous vehicles?
8. Compare Toyota and Volvo trucks
9. How is the President of India selected?
10.What would you do if you were not selected?
11.If you would prepare again, what changes would you like to incorporate to get
admission the next time?
12.How has the Covid year been for you?

Interview Experience 3:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, NIT Durgapur


Branch: Chemical Engineering
CAT Percentile:
Work Ex (Company, Months): HPL (47 Months)

Interview Experience:

1. Tell me about yourself


2. Having almost 4 years of work experience, why do you want to pursue MBA?
3. Since you have a good amount of experience, down the line in your organization,
you will get a good position then what do you expect after MBA?
4. Please tell us about your work-experience. What roles and duties did you have
there?
5. Where are you from?

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6. West Bengal is situated in which direction of India? It’s placed in the East, so
why it’s called West Bengal? For what it is famous for? What are the
neighbouring states?
7. What is GDP?
8. What is the current GDP of India?
9. What is R square?
10.Few questions related to past achievements
11.You have already published a paper in Chemical engineering field and had 4
years of work ex in that area only. Then why do you want to shift your domain?

Interview Experience 4:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, VNIT Nagpur


Branch: Mechanical Engineering
CAT Percentile: 83
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Experience:

1. Tell me about yourself


2. Who is your role model? Please tell us more about him/her and their
achievements. Do you think you would be able to achieve the same?
3. Your academics are good but your marks seem to be dipping throughout your
career. Going by this trend, you may score low here. How would you handle your
academics along with other activities?
4. What are your strengths? (Answered - fairness) Then, I was provided with a
situation where I had to select 1 professor out of 3 professors with equal talent
and equal calibre. How would you make this choice to be fair with them? On
what parameters will you make that choice?
5. What are your hobbies? (Answered - Cricket) What is the length of stumps?
6. What is your priority list of colleges for pursuing your MBA?

Interview Experience 5:

Profile:

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Graduation Stream, College: Shri Ram College of Commerce


Branch: Commerce
CAT Percentile: 94.52
Work Ex (Company, Months): Jaypee Commodities, Intelenet Pvt. Ltd., MetLife (84
months)

Interview Questions:

1. Please introduce yourself.


2. What is the meaning of your name?
3. What are your views about Amitabh Bachchan as a brand?
4. What are your hobbies? (Answered - Football) Which is your favourite club?
(Answered - Chelsea)
5. Who is the current coach of Chelsea? Can you analyze the coaching styles of the
current coach and the previous one?
6. Do you follow news and current affairs regularly? Choose any one topic that you
are comfortable with.
7. What is your opinion regarding the Farm Laws and the ongoing farmers’ protest?
8. Why do you want to pursue an MBA from DMS, IIT Delhi?
9. What according to you is the unique selling proposition of DMS?

Interview Experience 6:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.I.T Sindri


Branch: Electrical Engineering
CAT Percentile: 88
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

1. Please introduce yourself.


2. What are the key differences between Management and Administration?
3. How do you think an MBA degree will help you?
4. Tell us more about the start-up that you have been involved in?

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5. How does a transformer work? What are the losses associated with it?
6. What is the difference between a transformer and a generator?
7. What is your opinion about TikTok ban in India?
8. If selected, what value addition will you bring to the DMS batch?

Interview Experience 7:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: IIT Dharwad


Branch: Computer Science Engineering
CAT Percentile: 95.52
Work Ex (Company, Months): Broadridge Financial Solutions (11 months)

Interview Questions:

1. What is climate accord?


2. Who is Greta Thunberg?
3. About farmer bill?
4. What do RBI do?
5. In general overview of finance and banking sector?

Interview Experience 8:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: NIT Kurukshetra


Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering
CAT Percentile: 95.87
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

1. Give a brief introduction about yourself.


2. What does your name mean? Does it mean abstinence?
3. So, you have studied in the holy city of Kurukshetra, tell us what do you know
about your Alma mater's city.

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4. Recently there has been a transformation in the Indian Defence Forces, are you
aware of that? (Referred towards the appointment of CDS Bipin Rawat)
5. What are greenfield and brownfield projects?
6. How do you explain sustainability in business with continuous profitability?
7. Illustrate with reason - Who do you like the most - Jeff Besos or Elon Musk?
8. As you have worked in a manufacturing setup, what is lean six sigma?
9. So, you are interested in financial markets, differentiate between fundamental and
technical analysis, stocks and mutual funds. Can you name the stock which has
the highest stock price in India? (Answer - MRF)
10.Have you heard about Khap Panchayat? What are your views about village
governance through a centralised code of conduct? (Was not aware of Khap
Panchayat)
11.Tell us one moment of success or failure from your work experience that you will
cherish for your life.
12.What is more important to you - constant learning with mediocre growth or
minimal learning with a hefty paycheque?

Interview Experience 9:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: IIT ISM Dhanbad


Branch: Mining Engineering
CAT Percentile: 96.39
Work Ex (Company, Months): Hindalco Industries Ltd & Adani Enterprises Ltd. (38
months)

Interview Questions:

1. Interview started with "How are you and what is going on with you today". The
discussion then went on how was I attending a marriage online.
2. Allocation of Delhi's budget in healthcare sector. Whether is it justified or not.
3. Should the government be allocating money in some other healthcare facilities or
institutions apart from the ones they are already investing in?
4. Why were you awarded Spot Recognition Award in the last company you have
worked in?

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5. What are your suggestions to resolve the issues faced by the company in the
project you were working in?

Interview Experience 10:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: IIT Roorkee


Branch: Electrical and Electronics
CAT Percentile: 98.22
Work Ex (Company, Months): Mahindra and Mahindra (47 months)

Interview Questions:

1. Introduce yourself apart from what is filled in the form.


2. Why MBA after so much work experience?
3. Biggest Challenge for EVs in India?
4. Future of EVs in India?
5. Why DMS IIT Delhi?
6. What process you would like to change in your organisation?

Interview Experience 11:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA


Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering
CAT Percentile: 98.9
Work Ex (Company, Months): Qualcomm (38 months)

Interview Questions:

1. Interview started with Introduction.


2. Questions on work ex and what motivated me to MBA.
3. Questions on UG Branch:
4. PN junction, Diode

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5. Working of Capacitor, what are supercapacitor, recent application of


supercapacitor
6. Questions on inflation, relation between interest rates and inflation, Repo rate,
reverse repo rates and their impact on inflation and deflation

Interview Experience 12:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: NSUT East Campus


Branch: Electronics and Communication
CAT Percentile: 96.74
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

1. About the changes in my college recently, as was mentioned in my intro


2. What are my preferred areas of Study?
3. Why Marketing? And Why Telecom? (As I was interviewing for MBA Telecom)
4. Which book have I read about Marketing?
5. Difference in Sales and Marketing.
6. About my hobby and interest as mentioned in my intro.

Interview Experience 13:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: NIT Kurukshetra


Branch: Mechanical Engineering
CAT Percentile: 97.96
Work Ex (Company, Months): Hero Motocorp Ltd. (24 months)

Interview Questions:

1. What is Six Sigma?


2. Tell us something about Atmanirbhar bharat.
3. Favourite Movie and why?

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4. What is open source?


5. How does Linux earn?

Interview Experience 14:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: IIT Roorkee


Branch: Civil Engineering
CAT Percentile: 99.54
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

1. Tells us something about yourself?


2. How do you feel about joining an IIT for the second time?
3. How was your experience at IIT Roorkee?
4. Why MBA after doing civil engineering from the college which is known for
civil engineering?
5. When and why was IIT Roorkee found?
6. What was the original name of IIT Roorkee?
7. Do you know Cautley?
8. Why did you choose to do Civil Engineering?
9. How do you justify your low academic scores?
10.After joining an institute for MBA, what would you do if you don’t find MBA as
interesting as you thought?
11.Which discipline of civil engineering you would like to be tested on?
12.Describe your Design Airport Project.
13.What is the relationship between stress and strain?
14.What are your hobbies?
15.Describe the best trip you have had so far.
16.Suggest any five classic novel fictions you have liked the most.
17.Why do you have such an interest in Finance?
18.Describe your work at Worldquant.
19.What is an Alpha. Did you work on Beta as well?
20.Describe your work at Future Retail Limited.
21.Recently, Future Groups has been in news, can you tell us something about that?

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22.Which other interview calls do you have and where do you place DMS, IIT Delhi
in your priority list?
23.Why do you feel you did not get calls from top IIMs?

Interview Experience 15:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh


Branch: Civil Engineering
CAT Percentile: 99.29
Work Ex (Company, Months): Atkins India Pvt. Ltd (47 months)

Interview Questions:

1. Can you mention few things that your city/state is known for?
2. How many types of bridges are there? Give an example of each bridge type
within India.
3. How would you design a public utility building keeping in mind the access
requirements for disabled people?
4. What do you understand by the term sustainability? Mention some instances of
how it is being incorporated into the construction industry?
5. What are the standout differences of rail infrastructure in the UK as compared to
India? (Given the candidate’s experience in UK rail sector)

Interview Experience 16:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal


Branch: Mechanical
CAT Percentile: 98.41
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

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1. Tell us something about yourself.


2. What is Predictive Analysis?
3. What are some applications and scenarios where we may use Predictive
Analysis?
4. Difference between pandemic and epidemic?
5. Mention some alumni of your college and what position they currently hold?
6. Why do you want to do MBA?

Interview Experience 17:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: NIT DURGAPUR


Branch: Mechanical Engineering
CAT Percentile: 99.34
Work Ex (Company, Months): Fresher

Interview Questions:

1. Kindly introduce Yourself


2. Tell us about your role in your undergrad committee
3. Can you explain the Carnot Cycle?
4. Can you state the laws of thermodynamics?
5. In a refrigerator, why is the freezer placed at the top?
6. Do you have any questions for us?

Interview Experience 18:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: NIT DURGAPUR


Branch: BIO TECHNOLOGY
CAT Percentile: 92.1
Work Ex (Company, Months): Infosys (33 months)

Interview Questions:

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1. Tell us something about yourself.


2. Tell us about your roles and responsibilities at the job.
3. What do you think will happen if the earth stops rotating about its axis ?
4. What will happen if the earth reverses its direction of rotation about its axis?
5. What according to you is the difference between vaccine efficacy and vaccine
effectiveness?
6. Tell us the difference between AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML ( Machine
Learning)
7. Why do you want to do MBA?

Interview Experience 19:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, College Of Engineering Pune


Branch: Electrical Engineering
CAT Percentile: 98.35
Work Ex (Company, Months): Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (25 months)

Interview Questions:

1. Why do you want to pursue MBA?


2. Let's assume you are a tree, which tree you want to be and why?
3. Describe your Work Experience in detail.
4. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd is the part of Japanese group ‘Suzuki’, describe the
cultural difference between Japanese and us.

Interview Experience 20:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, NIT Calicut


Branch: Production Engineering
CAT Percentile: 95.36
Work Ex (Company, Months): MRF Ltd (24 months)

Interview Questions:

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INTERVIEW TOOLKIT COMPENDIUM

1. Tell us about yourself.


2. What do you understand by Six Sigma?
3. Describe your final year project.
4. You have mentioned about the research paper, tell us about it.
5. Describe briefly about your job role and how you are contributing to the
organisation.
6. Who is the governor of Kerala?
7. Who is agriculture minister?
8. Who is the governor of RBI?

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Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, VIT


Branch: Computer Science Engineering
CAT Percentile: 98.28
Work Ex (Company, Months): Amadeus Software Labs (25 months)

Interview Questions:

1. What is the revenue model of your company?


2. Tell us about yourself and why MBA?
3. Why would you want to be in DMS?
4. Rank in order of preference - Placements, Curriculum, Pedagogy
5. Which is your preferred field of interest in MBA? Can you name one DMS
professor from that field?
6. Do you follow news?
7. Tell us about your opinion on Farm Laws.
8. Which newspaper do you read?
9. Tell us about your work experience and how did you make a difference there?
10.You are a person with 9/9/9, anything else that you did or only studies?
11.Tell us about your research paper
12.What is your biggest achievement and why?
13.Ca you recollect one of your biggest failures and how did you overcome it?

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INTERVIEW TOOLKIT COMPENDIUM

Interview Experience 22:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, Punjabi University, Patiala


Branch: Computer Science Engineering
CAT Percentile: 94.75
Work Ex (Company, Months): Infosys (36 months)

Interview Questions:

1. Why do you want to quit your job and join an MBA course?
2. Which domain are you interested in?
3. Roles and responsibilities during work-ex.
4. Opinion about farmers’ protest against farm laws.
5. How can Virtual Reality be used with apps like Nykaa.
6. Infosys was in news in the past couple of years due to changes in the top
management. What are your views about that?
7. How would you resolve a conflict while working in a team?

Interview Experience 23:

Profile:

Graduation Stream, College: B.Tech, Osmania University


Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering
CAT Percentile: 95.36
Work Ex (Company, Months): TCS (25 months)

Interview Questions:

1. What is the meaning of your name?


2. Tell us more about your work experience
3. What is the future of testing?
4. One major incident during your term at TCS
5. What is your opinion on farm laws?

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INTERVIEW TOOLKIT COMPENDIUM

6. What is the difference of MBA at IIMs and IITs?


7. Have you been in the Northern part of India before?
8. You have spent majority of your life in the South, can you adjust in Delhi?

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